Pac-Man Style Maze

#1 You could create the board with a tilemap where there are "tunnels" three tiles wide and walls one tile wide. Put collision on the wall tiles so pac man can't get through. That's one idea, I'm sure there are others.

#2 Will that keep pac-man on a certain row or column? Because if you dont clamp him to a tile he won't line up correctly with the tilemap.

#3 Will "that" keep him clamped? No. You have to handle that part yourself. Constrain your pacman to moving along the center lines of each tile. This would have to be a fundamental design feature of the movement system you come up with.

#4 @Jordan -- are you still struggling with this issue?

If so, I've done the following:

I posted my 't2dTileLayer.getTileWorldPosition()' code recently ... and here's what I do when I move my character along a tilemap to make sure they 'snap' to a tile:

%player.moveTo(tileLayer.getTileWorldPosition("3 4"));

Just do a quick search for the code, should be in one of my recent forum or 'blog' posts on the site (check my profile)

When the player moves, I do not set there velocity, but rather I tell them where to go -- I also enabled the 'onPositionTarget' callback, so that the player does not stop moving -- just like pac-man, you could not get him to stop in the middle of a hallway, but you could get him to stop by slamming him into a wall (like a corner or t-junction)

What I did was put a 'nextDirection' and 'nextTile' field on my mobile objects (ghosts, player, specials [banana, strawberry, cherry, etc]) -- in the onPositionTarget() callback, I simply move to the next tile in that position using simple tile math:

function getNextTile(%tile, %direction)
{
  %x = getWord(%tile, 0);
  %y = getWord(%tile, 1);
  switch$(%direction)
  {
    case "up": %x--;
    case "down": %x++;
    case "left": %y--;
    case "right": %y++
  }

  return %x SPC %y;
}

Which, if the player is moving left, and you pass in "4 4" ... returns "3 4" ... so I simply call "moveTo" again, using "3 4" as the tile position, and grab it's world position using the t2dTileLayer.getTileWorldPosition (which, btw, is a completely TorqueScript implementation -- C++ implementation to follow soon)

Hope this helps.